I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on.
Philip K. DickAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 2, 1928
- Died: March 2, 1982
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